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Objectives of Lecture. Offer a clear introduction to the work of David Harvey on GlobalisationTo briefly review the positions adopted by Woods and Wallerstein . David Harvey. . Harvey is the famous geographer (most cited) and Marxist theorist in the World. Born in 1935 in Kent and he has taught mainly in elite US Universities In different texts he seeks to do slightly different, but not contradictory, thingsThe purposes of the Condition of Postmodernity and the Articles in Schmidt and Panitc13
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1. Globalisation as Late Capitalism
3. David Harvey
4. Harvey is the famous geographer (most cited) and Marxist theorist in the World. Born in 1935 in Kent and he has taught mainly in elite US Universities
In different texts he seeks to do slightly different, but not contradictory, things
The purposes of the Condition of Postmodernity and the Articles in Schmidt and Panitch are quite differently
5. The Condition of Postmodernity: The Condition essentially constitutes a study of articulation of time and space since the European Enlightenment.
Important differences between Giddens and Harvey
Explicitly Materialist and rejection of simple idea of premodern and modern sense of space
6. Different Premodern Conceptions of Space and Involving Modern Conception of Space and Time
For Harvey different senses of time exist (enduring time, deceptive time, erratic time, cyclical time, retarded time etc) and dominate at different times and in different relationships
Key Institutions of development of Modernist conceptions of space private property coupled with technological development
Time linked with capitalist work discipline
7. Clearer than Giddens in identifying who make space and time and why
Harvey interested in Time-Space as sources of social power and how they impact on human psychology (Historical Geographical Materialist)
Control of Time, Money, Space are three axis of social power (fungible)
For Harvey the study of space involves the study of four things (more of a framework for analysis than a theory)
8. Distanciation
Appropriation of Space
The domination space
The production of space
Structural and Suprastructural analysis of space
Capitalism superior command of space is critical to its survival
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Capitalism involves periodic Spatial-Temporal Fixes
10. Importantly for Harvey been a qualitative and quantitative shift in the organisation of space and time (and capitalism more generally) since 1973
New Spatial Temporal Fix
Annihilation of Space
11. Features of Contemporary Global Period
Annihilation of Place increases importance of place specific competition
Pursuit of Economies of Flexibility and Turnover time over scale
Political Economy of the Image
Focus on Speculation
Pursuit of Economies of Flexibility and Turnover time over scale
Fashions
12. Harvey has always interesting relationship between art and wider political economy
For Harvey the film Bladerunner says some fundamentally important things about contemporary political economy
Themes of Bladerunner: Time, the Global City (sweatshop), the Real and the Simulacra, Polarisation and Corporate Power. Body itself as object of accumulation
Problem with Bladerunner problem of postmodern politics
13. For Harvey the film Bladerunner says some fundamentally important things about contemporary political economy
Themes of Bladerunner: Time, the Global City (sweatshop), the Real and the Simulacra, Polarisation and Corporate Power. Body itself as object of accumulation
15. Gangster Rap- Astheticisation of Poverty, Individualisation, Compression of Time
16. Pornography- Global (destruction of space) industry. Time compression Simulacra dominates the real. Excellent example, of postmodern political economy. Atomisation and physiology of postmodernism.
17. The Potential Political Responses to Time-Space Compression can be Disastrous. Anesthetisation of Place and the Politics of Charisma
18. Harvey other work can be seen as building on the Condition of Postmodernity.
Big new idea is accumulation through dispossession
Substitute for more desire accumulation through expanded reproduction
Fundamentally very simple. Transfer of resources from capitalist sector to global capital. Both a internal and external element
19. Interesting example Blair policy towards the NHS
In 2005 Hewitt announced plans to increase percent of operations performed by private sector from 5 to 15 percent
Also Biopiracy
For Harvey Globalisation= Space-time compression and commodification
20. Other Interesting Radical Accounts Wallerstein and Woods stress continuity.
For Woods particular features of modern nation state make it uniquely suited to capitalism
Wallerstein argues globalisation nonsense and what we are in fact living in age of transition. Capitalism faces crisis stemming from 3 sources rising wages, taxation and input costs
21. Conclusions Harvey is master theorist and one greatest social theorists of the 20th Century
Difficulty with his work level of abstraction. Harvey provides us point of departure for empirical work
Contribution of Woods is to check excessive focus on the new
Wallersteins work is problematic but should not be allowed to take from pervious contributions
After reading week leave theory behind to study concrete processes.